{"id":10782,"date":"2015-02-19T12:12:04","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T17:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=10782"},"modified":"2015-02-19T12:12:04","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T17:12:04","slug":"mp3-keep-on-keepin-on-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=10782","title":{"rendered":"MP3: Keep on Keepin’ On (2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"KeepOnKeepinOn_s\"<\/a>Score<\/strong>: Very Good<\/p>\n

Label<\/strong>: Varese Sarabande<\/a><\/p>\n

Released:<\/strong> \u00a0February 24, 2015<\/span><\/p>\n

Tracks \/ Album Length:<\/strong>\u00a0 CD – 24 tracks \/ Digital – 32 tracks<\/p>\n

Composer:<\/strong> various<\/p>\n

Special Notes:<\/strong>\u00a0 Available on CD and digitally with bonus cuts.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Review:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Although director Alan Hicks mentioned in a DVD interview his desire to release a 2-CD soundtrack album, the disc + bonus material in this release more than satisfy the need to hear all of the material featured in his stellar documentary on jazz legend Clark Terry.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a modest but carefully curated sampler of Terry\u2019s work, spanning his years with Duke Ellington, Quincy Jones, and later with his own band, touring when not teaching, and mentoring new generations of musicians like Justin Kauflin, a young prot\u00e9g\u00e9 who, like his mentor Terry, was in the process of losing his sight.<\/p>\n

Whether Kauflin is an accomplished musician and composer isn\u2019t a doubt within the doc, but because his music and performances are brief within the film\u2019s greater audio narrative of dialogue + archival performance clips from Terry\u2019s epic career, this album allows one to hear Kauflin\u2019s music, and appreciate his skill in creating themes and some beautifully fluid improvisations.<\/p>\n

On the Varese CD release, most of his cues are layered with dialogue \u2013 a concept anathema to soundtrack fans, especially veteran collectors who had to settle for mixed versions of favourite cues in prior decades (Night of the Hunter<\/strong>, Cromwell<\/strong>, Angel Heart<\/strong>, and the list goes on) \u2013 but the digital album includes 8 bonus tracks that feature Kauflin\u2019s clean, instrumental cues + the handful of orchestral tracks by Dave Grusin, a fine film composer and jazz musician \/ pianist \/ composer in his own right.<\/p>\n

Grusin\u2019s brief cues (4) hover around a minute each and are performed by a small string orchestra, leaving the piano material to Kauflin. His brief cues (2) are fragmentary but quite lovely, but it\u2019s his longer ode to his mentor (\u201cFor Clark\u201d) and especially \u201cExodus\u201d which showcase the young composer\u2019s skills. The Clark tribute is very wistful, and like the two brief cues, they\u2019re for solo piano, whereas \u201cExodus\u201d features Kauflin with his own trio, flanked by bass and drums, and it\u2019s a clean, eloquent meditation that undoubtedly makes the listener stop and pay attention. (Not long after the film\u2019s completion, Kauflin was signed to Quincy Jones\u2019 own label for a debut album.)<\/p>\n

The vivid source cues on the album were partly the result of Quincy Jones\u2019 addition to the film\u2019s production end, helping to clear through complex rights issues to enable a modest yet impressive sampling of Terry\u2019s work appear in the film and on disc. Jones is cited as one of Terry\u2019s first students, of which many more followed including Miles Davis, and although the dialogue additions may break up the album\u2019s flow, at least the chosen words are inspirational, and in line with the film\u2019s titular message of sticking to one\u2019s craft, and never giving up.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 2015 Mark R. Hasan<\/p>\n

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Additional Links:<\/strong>
\nEditor’s Blog<\/a> — Composers on IMDB: Dave Grusin<\/a> \/ Justin Kauflin<\/a> \u00a0— \u00a0Composer Filmography<\/a> — \u00a0Film Review<\/a>
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Select Merchants:<\/strong>
\nAmazon.ca<\/a>\"\" —<\/span> Amazon.com<\/a>\"\" —<\/span> Amazon.co.uk<\/a>\"\" —\u00a0BSX<\/a> —\u00a0Intrada<\/a> —\u00a0Screen Archives Entertainment<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Although director Alan Hicks mentioned in a DVD interview his desire to release a 2-CD soundtrack album, the disc + bonus material in this release more than satisfy the need to hear all of the material featured in his stellar documentary on jazz legend Clark Terry…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[3319,3320,3323,139],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-2NU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10782"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10782"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10799,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10782\/revisions\/10799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}